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...They were battling on those fronts this week. Giuliani's folks have been dropping hints that Romney is weak on fiscal discipline, in part to strengthen their position in tax-obsessed New Hampshire. Romney, still ahead but slipping in the Granite state over the summer, has fired back with a radio ad noting that he alone has signed the no new taxes pledge. "I'm proud to be the only major candidate for President to sign the tax pledge," he says, "The others have not." Romney goes on in the ad to make another promise: he vows not merely...
...last week became the first Filipino to be recognized with the Harvard Business School’s highest honor for its alumni. Zobel has focused on innovative ways to improve Ayala Corporation and the $22 million non-profit Ayala Foundation, whose goal is to strengthen Filipino culture, public education, and the leadership skills of Filipino youth. Since he became president of the corporation in 1995, Zobel has built Ayala’s ties with what V. Kasturi Rangan—an HBS professor whose work influenced Zobel—calls the “base of the pyramid?...
...travel around Iraq, but how they will do that is now a point of contention. Since Iraq suspended Blackwater's license following the Sunday firefight, American diplomats have not been able to travel outside the Green Zone to visit ministries and other Iraqi sites. "We're there to strengthen the capacity of the Iraqi Government. We're not able to do that all in the Green Zone," Rice said she told Maliki in the conversation. And, she said, he agreed...
Kreisberg said the school has been courting Google for some time, and this program provides an chance to strengthen ties with the company...
...policy in Nicaragua depending on what Ahmadinejad is up to." The Bush Administration has not focused on Nicaragua much at all, despite the election of the leftist Ortega. Foley says merely that Washington "has a positive agenda in the hemisphere and we are working with our partners to strengthen democracy, promote prosperity and invest in people...